Why KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE 2 Never Happened
The Chiodo brothers got close to finally making their long-awaited sequel to their cult-classic horror-comedy Killer Klowns from Outer Space with SYFY back in 2018. But it never happened. And today, Stephen Chiodo reveals why.
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Read his comments below.
He tells Slasher Radio: “MGM controls the rights. And they went to SYFY. They did Critters, and you saw what that turned out to be like. But they wanted to do Klowns for like two million [dollars]. And we don’t want to do that. We did it for two million back in the ’80s. So we didn’t want to do it. And even MGM didn’t want to do it. They said it was a more valuable property than just signing off for that little money.”
Bummer.
So what about Netflix’s Killer Klowns sequel?
He says: “We are talking to them. We’re talking all the time. Get this: we’ve been trying to do a sequel since we made the film and fans get angry with us. We don’t mention it too much, because they get angry. They say, ‘Oh, what’s the matter with you guys?’ But we’re trying. The business is just a bear, moves at a glacial pace. There’s interest, and it wanes and flows. You get some executives who really want to do it, then, all of a sudden, musical chairs. They’re out, a new regime is in, and they don’t get it… We’ll see if they can embrace our sensibility.”
Killer Klowns from Outer Space is about a clan of evil aliens from an unknown region, who all resemble clowns. They arrive on Earth and invade a small town in order to capture, kill, and harvest the human inhabitants to use as sustenance.
The killer cult classic sports a fresh 75% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: Killer Klowns from Outer Space’s title promises darkly goofy fun — and more often than not, the movie delivers.
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